Date of birth: 23 August 1801
Date of death: 16 May 1858
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**Henry Richard Hoisington** was an american Missionary under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Misions (ABCFM) in Ceylon. He was an instructor in Astronomy and English in *Batticota Seminary*, Jaffna, Ceylon, and its second principal.

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Sir John Charles Frederick Sigismund Day was born at the Hague, the son of Captain John Day and his wife Emilie (née Hartsinck). He completed his schooling at Downside, and, prevented from attending the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge by his Catholic faith, attended the University of London,...